That is an incredible trajectory for a game, what the actual fuck?

Total per-account upvotes minus downvotes value is tracked for everyone, it is just hidden by choice in Lemmy. Other softwares have other approaches, Piefed has the “attitude” you mentioned. Kbin used to just show the full “karma” value, I’m not sure if Mbin still does. It doesn’t appeal to me so I don’t keep up with development.

It’s weird that the only other real-time adventure game I know of (The Last Express) also came out in 97. Must have been something in the water around that time.

This game looks fascinating, and absolutely bizarre. I can’t say I have a strong desire to play it, but I would watch a playthrough of it.

And if you still want more there is also Chrono Ark.

Only like… a million of them? I could throw you some suggestions but narrowing it down to a few genres would probably help.

Titanium Court is probably the best game released so far this year, my frontrunner for GOTY and one of the best (or at least most interesting) games I’ve ever played. Don’t look up anything about it, just play it blind. Trust me.

Withering Rooms is a wonderful and unique action/horror roguelike made by a single person with some wonderful world building, story and and art direction. Lots of different build variety too.

Death Howl is a really cool grid-based strategy/deckbuilder. Really beautiful pixel art, too.

This is just some of what I’ve played recently, any of that strike your fancy? I can probably come up with more if you give me more to work with.

Anything you make in a cheap filter drip coffee machine is going to have an upper bound of how well it can taste. It’s a convenient method to brew larger quantities of coffee at once, but not really an ideal way of getting the best tasting coffee.

You might want to try a more medium roast instead of a dark roast and see if that tastes less like dirt to you, but a lot of cheap coffee is going to be dark roast because it hides the taste of the (shitty) beans used.

Yeah it’s a very funny game, despite also being serious a lot of the time. It’s an impressive balancing act in the writing.

The music is by a band called Sea Power, which Robert Kurvitz managed to convince make the OST! Some absolute bangers on that soundtrack, every time those horns hit when you step out of the Whirling…

It’s a wonderful game. It might appear depressing at times, but ultimately I think it’s a game about hope. Take your time with it, and don’t be afraid to be weird. This isn’t a game that punishes you for picking wacky dialogue options very often. And don’t be afraid to fail checks either, failure is a recurring theme of the game and it’s designed with a fail-forward philosophy. Some of my favourite moments actually come from failed checks.

Maybe I got something mixed up. €390 is definitely out of my price range regardless. Scrolling through it now I think it must have been a sale for a Gen 1 grinder I saw. I remember the price being €250 and being so close to pulling the trigger.

I’m jealous, I was so close to buying a DF64 this winter but decided to be stingy and hold on to my money. I just checked the prices and now it looks like it’s almost twice as expensive. Oh well 🙃

Yeah I also prefer those. Tove Jansson was such a great writer.

And also I know that show! Well, “vaguely remember” is probably more correct. I used to watch it as a kid, but I haven’t since then. I wonder what I’d think about it nowadays.

I know the struggle. Well, not so much about rotation as I tend to play one game at a time but the backlog. It’s beginning to stack so high now it’s been officially classified as a significant landmark by the government.

Noted! I might pick them up at some point if I need a cozy game. Also, talking about this again makes me want to go dig up my old copy of Who Will Comfort Toffle?. Was my absolute comfort book as a kid, favourite bedtime story.

Errr… Court, right? This one. Anyway, I hope it’ll resonate with you, for my it’s likely to be a personal GOTY contender.

Ooh I loved INMOST. Played it on PC though. Great art, great music, great vibes. Story was also good although the ending could have been more subtle.

Ah damn, I had no idea! Which one would you say is better?

Played Titanium Court. Its great. You should play it. Don’t look up anything about it, just put your trust in the Steam refund window. You will know if it is for you or not within the first 2hrs. I am still struggling to describe it in an enticing way without spoiling anything, because this is a game that delights in constantly surprising you. Disregarding the gameplay (which is completely different) you could say Titanium Court is a little bit like Undertale for adults? That’s what I felt, at least. If you want a little bit more then this short sort of captures it.

After finally tearing myself away from Titanium Court I began playing AI Limit. It’s an anime-styled Soulslike, and while I’m not huge on anime I’d heard a lot of good things about it. So far it’s been pretty solid. It has its flaws, but it was made by a small team after all. I wish the art direction was a little stronger and more distinctive - anime post-apocalyptic modern sceneries seem like they’re dime a dozen, especially paired with mutated fleshy alien matter. There are plenty of sceneries here that may be competently designed in isolation, but just feels like I’ve seen before. The graphics are also very uneven and some textures look terrible - again, small team I guess.

Combat is pretty decent though. There is no stamina, instead there is a combined stamina/mana bar called Sync that also depletes when you get hit and recharges when you hit enemies (or parry them). Normal attacks and dodges don’t cost any Sync, so combat has a distinctly different feel from most Soulslikes. You also deal more damage at maximum Sync, but your special attacks stop working at lower Sync. If your Sync is totally depleted you get into a vulnerable state that often means death. It’s an interesting twist that makes combat feel a bit different.

EDIT: Also forgot to say, but I’ve missed these threads! I hope you’ve been well @chloyster@beehaw.org and I’m glad you’re back!

Is there a new one or the Melody of Moominvalley? That’s actually been on my wishlist for a bit, I grew up on Tova Jansson and it has great reviews too.

I honestly can’t remember. I bought a couple of physical 3DS games semi-recently, but those were ordered online. I bought Rayman Legends on the PS4 for my sister from a physical game store like 12 years ago? Might genuinely be that.

The first death of the story and lore of MtG was the Gatewatch. Magic moved from localised and discrete stories with characters rooted in the specific worlds of the recent formats towards something more akin to Marvel movies or a Sunday morning cartoon. Instead it was Jace and the gang turning up every week and beating the enemy with the power of friendship. Maybe there was also some turnover in the staff around this time, because it felt like the quality of the writing declined as well.

This current era of Fortnite style IP mixing and complete sell out is just embarrassing though.